NEWS

The U.S. will get a chance to qualify the last boat class not yet on the 2016 Paralympic program when Helman Roman (Miami, Fla.) and Laura Goodkind (Long Beach, Calif.) race in the Final Paralympic Qualification Regatta this week.

Vermont-based Craftsbury Sculling Center's Ben Davison, Benn Dann, John Graves and Peter Graves won the men’s quadruple sculls final at the 2016 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Team Trials – Rowing. It was step one in the process of making it to the team that will race at the Olympic Games this summer.

The National Rowing Foundation will induct the crews of six boats comprising 24 outstanding athletes and two dedicated patrons of rowing, all of whom represent the very best in the sport, on Saturday, April 23, in Sarasota, Fla.

The Institute for Rowing Leadership at Community Rowing, Inc. along with the national governing body for rowing in the United States, USRowing, announces the members of the Class of 2017- Advanced Certificate in Rowing Leadership program. Ten Fellows have been accepted for the Class of 2017, the sixth and largest class to join the IRL. This class will join four (soon to be five) previous classes of alumni changing lives through rowing.

Three men's quadruple sculls crews competing for a chance to race at the Final Olympic Qualification Regatta in Lucerne, Switzerland in May, and ultimately compete in Rio this summer, rowed in a time trial for lane positions Sunday. The final is scheduled for Tuesday at Nathan Benderson Park in Sarasota, Fla.

If the first international races of the Olympic year are any indication of what’s to come, the United States is setting up for a dramatic showing in Rio this summer after winning gold and bronze Sunday at World Cup I.

Following their race at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Calif., DiSanto and Munn talk about the ups and downs of a four-year Olympic cycle and what it takes to move past adversity and learn from both failures and successes.

Princeton, N.J. – Yale University took on the weather and Dartmouth College last weekend on the Housatonic River in Derby, Conn. and held on to both the Olympic Axe and the number one ranking for the men's varsity eight in the third regular season USRowing coaches poll.

USRowing is excited to announce Kinesio® Holding Corporation (KHC) as the newest addition to its sponsor community. The Kinesio Taping® Method, developed by Dr. Kenzo Kase, is designed to facilitate the body’s natural healing process while allowing support and stability to muscles and joints without restricting the body’s range of motion. Kinesio® tape will be made available to USRowing Training Center athletes as they prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio.

Some of the highest ranked schools in the USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Division I poll, will get the chance to race each other this weekend at the Lake Natoma Invitational on Lake Natoma in Rancho Cordova, Calif.

American Experience announced this week that The Boys of ’36, a new one-hour documentary inspired by Daniel James Brown’s critically-acclaimed nonfiction book The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, will premiere Tuesday, August, 2, 2016, 9:00-10:00 p.m. ET on PBS.

Robin Prendes and Edward “Mix” King have both represented the United States before. Prendes was an Olympic athlete in 2012 and King is an active duty United States Naval Officer rowing for the U.S. as part of the Navy Sports Program.

National Learn to Row Day on June 4 is the opportunity to introduce your boathouse to the local community. Organize a learn-to-row event, host an open house, or put on an erg/swim/run event. Whatever you choose, let people know about it!

Yale University dominated the varsity heavyweight men’s field and won the Copley Cup at the San Diego Crew Classic last weekend and took sole possession of the number one spot in the second USRowing Coaches Poll.

The trunk and arms mixed double sculls crew of Helman Roman (Miami, Fla.) and Laura Goodkind (Long Beach, Calif.) are one step closer to representing the U.S. at the 2016 Paralympic Games, following their row Wednesday at the 2016 USRowing Non-Qualified Paralympic Trialshelman?goodkind on Mercer Lake in West Windsor, N.J.

PRINCETON, N.J. – Brown University had a strong weekend of racing and was the consensus pick as the top Division I program in the third regular season USRowing/Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association Division I, II and III Collegiate Rowing Polls, presented by Pocock Racing Shells.

USRowing, the national governing body for the sport of rowing, and the Stewards and Directors of six Major Collegiate Rowing Championships are pleased to announce a partnership between the organizations.

PRINCETON, N.J. – More than four decades after she first picked up a rowing oar, 1984 Olympic silver medalist and Row to Rio legend Ginny Gilder is still waking waves. Her book, Course Correction: A Story of Rowing and Resilience in the Wake of Title IX, is scheduled to release in paperback and audio this month.